First Generation

He married Myrtle Edna Cole Iowa, 1919. Myrtle was born May 20, 1899. Myrtle(5286) was the daughter of Elijah Shedrick Cole and
Georgeanna Wix. Myrtle died December 17, 1972 in Fort Madison, IA, at 73 years of age. In the 1930 census Harrisburg,
VanBuren Co Iowa page 223, Lee (age 45) is recorded with his wife Myrtle (age 30), step daughter Minnie Godown (age 11), Henry Thomas (age
9), Bela? (age 7), June (age 6), Wilber (age 3y11m), and Elsie (age 1y5m). Thomas was first married at age 37, and Myrtle at age 16. Lee is
a farm laborer born in Iowa.